A Hotep Movie Moment: The Rocky Theory
I have found the very reason that we are not allowed to see many movies about strong Black upliftment from Hollywood. I call this my…
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BET Awards 2016: All Black Everything
BET tried to get its life together with this year’s BET Awards. And for that I am proud. Even with the missteps, I can’t say…
Ice Cube Talks Superpredators, Clinton, & Not “Feeling The Bern”
Ice Cube recently sat with John Heilemann of Bloomberg TV where he discussed a range of topics. They discussed the induction of his former pioneering rap…
Zoe Saldana, Nina Simone, & Hollywood Blaxploitation
The outcry against the recently dropped Nina Simone biopic has been feverishly enormous. Many people are not feeling what they see. Zoe Saldana’s makeup artists…
#OscarSoWhite Should Concern You, America
When I first heard of the call to boycott the Oscars by Spike Lee and #OscarSoWhite because of the lack of diversity in nominations for the…
The Miseducation of “Chi-Raq”
There had been buzz in the past year or so that there was a filming of a movie entitled “Chi-raq” with the gun violence at…
AMERICAN SNIPER: MY DEFENSE
By Mike Caccioppoli Let’s face it fellow liberals, Clint Eastwood pissed us off with his improvisation at the Republican Convention in 2012. I was just…
12 Years A Slave Should Inspire Us and Hollywood
As reported on the Root, “the brilliant, yet brutal 12 Years A Slave made history Sunday night as the first film directed by a black man,…
The Oscars 2014 and the Fun That Was Had
And just like that, the Oscars are over. With this night, there was much fanfare, champagne, and jokes. Ellen Degeneres was the host and that would be…
Spike Lee Confirms “School Daze” Sequel as HBCUs Struggle
Word on the street is that there’s a “School Daze” sequel in the works: Spike Lee’s classic Black college film School Daze turned 25 in…